ENGL2104: New Virtues New Vices
Butler - Crowley
RESTORATION POETS
-> trying to do something different (from Milton)
-> from the political event of Charles II ascention to King after the Commonwealth
MILTON: *English people are depraved backsliders
*Loss of 'Godsend' commonwealth
- this is why Paradise Lost is not a National Epic (unlike Illiad and Odyssey)
Vehement Supporter of commonwealth
-> the majority of English (slaves) have no right to vote on political ruling (they wanted MONARCHY)
=> MILTON is
not a
MODERN LIBERALEarly 1660's relief that the REVOLUTION is over and ORDER restored -> shown within POETRY
-> aspects of Modern Liberal Society
BUTLER - HUDIBRIS
+ retrospective poem -> obvious description of civil wars
=> opposition to established heroes => BUT Butler presents SATRICICAL POEM
-> ridicule and comedy
-> resisting the seriousness of the puritans
-> closed theatre 1642
* Comical ridicule of MILTON and other revolutionaries
-. making fun of militant protestants
|-> much less enjambent
|->pause at end of line
-> accentuated by puncuation
* HOW BUTLER ATTACK REVOLUTIONARIESMetaphoric use of ANIMALS ~> ridicule
-> Butler uses animals as lower than MAN
* underlying assumptions : Vocative use of ANIMAL
-> positive or negative?
HYPERBOLE:
DIRECT/LITERAL ASSERTION: flat description and insult
TRAVERSTY: Analogy of Chivalric Knights -> debased versions of elevated
classics-> presenting revolutionaries as travesties of something that was PURE/GOOD
VERSE FORM:
CHARACTERISTICS BEING ATTACKED- LANGUAGE
-> polemic
-> not understandable
-> rhetoric
- metaphor
- tropes
- metonymies
- PROTESTANTISM/PRESBYTERIANISM
-> resorting to violence....'pike and gun'
- 'INNER LIGHT'
-> guarentee of truth
-> justification of knowledge
-> godlike intuition
LOCKE attacks (seriously) the grounds of justification of knowledge via 'inner light'.
-> criterion of truth :-> anything that you strongly believe in has got to be
true- RELIGIOUS SENSIBILITY
-> punishment of themselves
-> endure
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